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If you mean the page title then you can't specify superscript because you are not operating in a formatted text environment, only flat text - you can't bold or choose colors either. There are ways to do with with Javascript and PHP but it won't be in the <title> tag. I had a company in the past that did this same thing (nonprofit org) and we decided to go with a favicon. We put the "P^3" ( in your case) up in the favicon of the website for branding and use "P3" as an SEO keyword. It seemed to work well. Just remember, SEO is about searching. That means you have to think about how people will search something. How many people do you know actually know how to use superscript in search. Not many I'm guessing.

I noticed that after answering your query, I completely ignored the SEO part of the query... Sorry about that!

My gut feeling is that a superscript 3 will be treated as a synonym of 3, therefore Google would rank you well for searches using either of the two... However, since having this initial though, I have been racking my brain trying to think of a big brand that uses super / sub script in their branding and the only one I can think of is o2 - a telecoms provider in the UK and Europe. (www.o2.co.uk/)

Looking at their website, they do not use subscript in any title or on-page elements. They only do it in imagery. I would imagine that o2 have invested a hell of a lot of time and money into their SEO strategy, so my guess would be that perhaps using sub or superscript does have negative connotations/implications.

Can anyone think of / find any examples of any other brands that DOES use sub / super script in their HTML?

Thank you for replying. Yes, that is exactly what I am looking for. Although, if I type that in my title tag(s), won't that kind of put me at a disadvantage keyword wise...since it is likely no one is going to type the code, but just P3? Would google recognize that as "P3"?

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